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Direct linkBazna, Maysaa; Reid, D. Kim – Disability & Society, 2009
Learning disabilities education in Kuwait grew from Kuwaiti's wholesale importation of the Western, medical model of disability--a model basically incompatible with Kuwaiti culture. Conflicting factors include its problematic normal/abnormal binary, its assumption that the "deficit" is located in the student and the segregation of…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict, Models
